BBC reputation hit again after it emerges its presenter sent offensive texts to second young person
The presenter has been suspended but not named, angering other high-profile stars who have fallen under suspicion on social media. BBC News said on Tuesday it had been contacted by a second young person – unconnected to the first – who said they had been approached by the presenter on a dating app.
Former Russian submarine officer blacklisted in Ukraine shot dead as he jogged in Krasnodar city
Russia’s top investigative body said Stanislav Rzhitsky, 42, was gunned down early on Monday in the southern city of Krasnodar. Rzhitsky’s address and personal details appeared on the Ukrainian website Myrotvorets (Peacemaker), a vast unofficial database of people considered to be enemies of Ukraine.
How ISIS funds Ugandan rebels: Financial web covers Kenya, Somalia, South Africa and Uganda
According to the UN report, the Islamic State group has funded the Allied Democratic Forces since 2019 through a web of financial mechanisms running through Kenya, Somalia, South Africa and Uganda. The report also notes that the Allied Democratic Forces has sent fighters beyond their base in North Kivu and Ituri in an attempt to expand their operations in the region — possibly as far as the DRC capital, Kinshasa.
UN: While pace of development in poor countries is fast, Africa and India’s population is sprinting
An obstacle to development according to Amare is that many countries in Africa rely on exporting unprocessed natural resources, like mining oil and gas and agriculture rather than developing an economy which sends out higher value finished products.
New El Dorado? With Guyana joining Africa as ‘hottest frontier oil play’ there’s more to learn
With less than one per cent of known global gas reserves, Trinidad and Tobago became the world’s leading exporter of two gas-based products, ammonia and methanol, and went on to become one of the world’s top five liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporters. Today, Trinidad and Tobago has one of the highest gross national incomes (GNI) per capita in Latin America and the Caribbean ($17,640 in 2015). Guyana is well on its way to following Trinidad and Tobago’s example, and I hope African nations like Namibia will do the same.
Grand jury seats in Atlanta to decide if Trump should be charged over Georgia’s 2020 election
About a year into her investigation, Willis took the unusual step of asking for a special grand jury. She said at the time that she needed the panel’s subpoena power to compel testimony from witnesses who otherwise might not be willing to talk to her team. That special grand jury was seated in May 2022 and was released in January after completing its work.
Russian drone attack repulsed on Ukrainian capital Kyiv and Odesa hours before Nato summit
In the Kyiv region that surrounds the capital, 12 residential houses and one multi-storey building suffered minor damage by falling debris, the military head of the region, Ruslan Kravchenko, said on his Facebook page. There were no injuries reported.
Retrobiologist Peter Duesberg: Retroviruses such as HIV are harmless and do not cause disease
According to Farber: “It’s a good question ‘Who was Fauci in the beginning there?’ How did he transform into somebody so ruthless, so unaccountable? And I’m being nice right now. As an historian of all of this, I place a lot of credence in the symbiosis between Fauci and the AIDS activists, because the AIDS activists were revolutionary, and they did have a revolutionary creed, which was, ‘By any means necessary, we demand what we demand.’
New book on leading virologist questions and contradicts popular narrative that HIV causes Aids
Farber: So, in other words, ‘AIDS spreads like this or like that and is going to affect everybody,’ because that’s what we’re supposed to say politically, not because that’s true biologically or epidemiologically. So, we’re all stuck now in this brand-new era where you get flogged for observing 2+2 = 4.
